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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Windows installer update

Hello fellow emeseners, this is syst3m. Most of you don't know me, and if you do that scares me a bit.

Anyways, if you are a Windows emesene user then you are probably familiar with some of my work. I am the guy that has been making the installers (and portable versions) of emesene since just before the release of 2.11.4.

Now for the real reason for this post.

There will be a new installer in 2.11.6!

I know it might not sound too exciting, but a lot of improvements have already been made to the installer to make it more user-friendly and Windows-friendly.

Some of the new features did make it into 2.11.5, but those were just added on to the existing boring installer.

emesene 2.11.6 features a completely re-written installer (and portable) script which include some new features as well as some improvements to existing ones.

Current Features:

Modern UI

Multi-language support

Added license, components, directory, welcome and finish pages

Clean uninstallation (registry friendly)

Optionally cleans up any older registry files

Optionally deletes config (current user only)

Checks if emesene is running when installer or uninstaller is opened

Added uninstall information to Add/Remove Programs

Ability to remove StartMenu Shortcuts

Slightly better compression (smaller installer size)

Planned Features:

Check installed version upon new installation

Other Windows changes that are present in 2.11.5 and newer are that shortcut icons now works in Windows Vista/7 and the config folder has been moved to APPDATA
(C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data on XP and
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming on Vista/7).

Sorry for any inconvenience in moving of the config file.

Before I go I just wanted to let you the users know that it is not hard to make contributions to emesene.

You don't have to be a developer or packager to help out, though they do help.

It's as simple as submitting bugs, suggestions, and translating into a language you know.

I started with minimal knowledge of python (still don't know much) but that didn't stop me from helping.

If you're interested in trying out windows experimental/development packages to try out new features, bug fixes, and my lovely new installer you have options.

Put config in :C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data is very very bad.I need my config files in D:\ becouse in a system crash i don't loose my config files on format. Exist some caind of config to put config in other folder?